On December 21 2012 12:16 JJH777 wrote: You guys really overrate how dominant zerg is right now. Protoss still wins plenty of tournaments and has a 50-50 winrate in PvZ. It's just Terran that has been doing absolutely terribly.
Overall, simply looking at win-rates alone, Protoss is doing slightly worse than Terran, and is only winning games vs zerg by hitting pre-Broodlord/Infestor timings. At the top level, Protoss seems to be doing better than Terran (eventhough this might just be the PartinG effect), and Zerg is still dominating at all levels since the end of august.
On December 21 2012 12:30 TommyP wrote: Yes 4Minute and then DRG v. BaBy OMG i cant freaking wait. Im 99% sure that whoever wins between DRG and BaBy will go onto crush NesTea though.
bisu will crank out the sentry-immortal all-in level 3 though. the difference between his build and parting's is that bisu doesn't get any immortals.
On December 21 2012 12:36 stuchiu wrote: If Life wins, he's player of the year and breakout player of the year. If he doesn't win, he's still breakout player of the year, but it will be a mad free for all between 4-5 different players.
i consider parting a bit more breakout than life was this year tbh. or maybe scarlett even.
Now that I think about it, I just realized Parting made his first big Code S this year. Changed the meta game for PvT nearly by himself and played some crazy series against MKP early on this year. I just completely forgot since it feels like it happened last year. Also, Parting is the epitome of the PvZ immortal/sentry.
Excluding all-kills here as both players were clutch for their teams in just about every team league.
Parting won WCG, and WCS Globabl. But in WCS, his path was made up of players you would rank below Parting (excluding Creator) And he should of won WCG with Yonghwa losing in the groups and MKP losing to Lowely. (Though I feel an argument has to be made that he got 3rd in WCS Korea and 2nd in WCS Asia).
Compare that to Life: He got back-to-back Majors in GSL and MLG. GSL ro8 he beat MKP, then Taeja and finally MVP. In MLG he beat Violet, Taeja, Flash and Leenock. Parting notably beat Creator, Hero, Curious, Roro and a few others. I'd argue that the competition that Life had to beat was harder as his list includes 2 players in the running for best of the year (MVP, Leenock (twice)), best in a season (Taeja), one of the best in Kespa (Flash), and Violet (top 5 zerg)
The path that Life had to take was harder than Parting's. But I don't think its completely definitive that Life should get breakout player of the year.
As for Scarlett, I won't rate her in the same category. There are too many extenuating circumstances when rating foreign players against Korean players in terms of time and opportunity to make a scale that would be able to measure everything fairly. And it's an entirely different discussion when talking about breakout foreign player of the year as there have been a surprising amount of foreign zergs that popped up this year (and Lucifron/EU Protoss).
On December 21 2012 12:30 TommyP wrote: Yes 4Minute and then DRG v. BaBy OMG i cant freaking wait. Im 99% sure that whoever wins between DRG and BaBy will go onto crush NesTea though.
bisu will crank out the sentry-immortal all-in level 3 though. the difference between his build and parting's is that bisu doesn't get any immortals.
On December 21 2012 12:36 stuchiu wrote: If Life wins, he's player of the year and breakout player of the year. If he doesn't win, he's still breakout player of the year, but it will be a mad free for all between 4-5 different players.
i consider parting a bit more breakout than life was this year tbh. or maybe scarlett even.
Scarlett, seriously? I like Scarlett, but she won North American WCS events. It's not a worthy comparison. Life is a good breakout player, he had earned $0 on sc2earnings before 2012.
well, scarlett imo is more famous than life for the average sc2 viewer; she's a foreigner hope haha. not often you can see foreigners break out like that :o life was a fairly consistent midtier zerg last year for the ESV weeklies, etc
Parting is way more of a breakout player than Life, imo. Life has consistently done well in the Weekly before entering the scene when he was still part of ZeNEX. Parting was pretty much a complete unknown up until the moment he knocked TOP out of the GSL in November 2011 and stomped his way to Code S. Since his debut in Code S in January, he has had an immense impact on both the PvT and PvZ metagame, with many decent runs, despite not really grabbing any major wins until the end of the year, and is now one of the most feared Protoss players on the planet. This is a guy who had little to no exposure before his appearance in Code A. I don't know anyone else who is more of a breakout player than this guy. Even Life and Sniper were hyped before their times.
I of course can't say whether or not Parting was well-known in the Korean communities before his big breakout, but I did follow the Weekly pretty religiously in the past, and before he was in the GSL, I had never seen hide nor tail of Parting, which can't be said of other "breakout" players like Life, Taeja, Jjakji, Squirtle, Curious, etc. Parting seemingly materialized out of nowhere and just started wrecking plenty of face.
On December 21 2012 12:08 Yoshi Kirishima wrote: can someone explain to me what wonwonwon is? i'm guessing sentry immortal all-in? thx in adv
A wonwonwon is Parting's own "Soulful immortal+sentry all-in". The name showed up some time after Parting made his comments that he won games with his all-in because he put his soul into it. It's a play on words; 1 won for the Won in his name, 1 for "won" as in the past tense of "to win" and 1 for "won", the Korean currency.
Bahah, that's actually awesome. It also ties in neatly with the dreaded Terran 1/1/1.
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